Our new team Feature
Setting up a Teams tournament:
The basic setup page, defining the dimensions is the important first step
The terminology we use is as follows:
- Halfs per Match. This is like a sports game, where a match is divided into 2 halfs (soccer), 3 periods (ice hockey) or 4 quarters (American football). Rather than using halfs, thirds, quarters – we call such a sub-division – a leg.
- Legs - In Teams matches it is very common to play 2 legs, so the pairs meet both pairs from the other team. We use 2 legs as the default. In the Bermuda Bowl Final, the teams play 8 legs, which is our current maximum.
- Boards per Leg. Here you specify the leg size. Meaning, that if a match consists of 2 legs, the number of boards in a match is 2 times this. If you say 10 boards per leg, and 2 legs per match – a match will contain 20 boards.
- Tables – the number of tables will normally be the same as the number of teams. However, if you have a vacant team, you must specify a seat for them. Notice it is different than the process for a pair game, where you can automatically assign a vacant pair at the dimension setup or select (or unselect) the vacant pair manually.
On the next setup page, you get a brief summary of what you specified. Here you have the option to shorten the tournament. If you do, it will imply that all teams will not meet.
Scoring a Teams tournament:
Setting up players for a Teams tournament:
Select the “Players” button by selecting the Team tournament and click the line or click the "Details" button.
You will then see the panel shown below to define the players on the team. You can add / remove / change players here as you are used to do.
When you click “Save” – we will define a default layout of the matches. You may need to change this. See later…
Changing the players in the match of a Teams tournament:
On the icon list above you can now also choose the “Players(New)” button - click brings up this small panel.
Here you select the match number you want to change the players layout – or seating - of the team match' players.
Below is an example of the new players layout panel. Notice the buttons at top as well
This panel is showing details for single match between two teams but on the top of the page you can select which match you want to configure. In our example you can see - at right - that there is a fifth player on one of the teams. You can drag and drop that player on to a seat, where he / she should play. When dragging and dropping a player, we will make sure that you drop the player on a valid seat for that player.
The “Populate to next leg” button will copy all details from leg 1 to leg 2. Notice - no matter what is defined in leg 2.
As we have illustrated you can specify who is playing on the teams at each table. It is also possible to change pairs, swap individual players. Please also notice a player can serve on more teams as long as he / she is not playing 2 seats at the same time - see more below.
We will be adding a function to add / change / delete players at this view as well as an option to swap.
With regards to player handling on the tablet, you can specify who is playing at the table. Either overruling the default setup or specifying a real player instead of the defaults – for example “Player 1A”. You cannot yet create the team's player list on the tablet.
Results Presentation for a Teams tournament - new options:
A new really cool feature is that you can now click on a result in the Team Results Grid - illustrated above with a red frame. You will then watch the scoresheet of the two teams. We have clicked on the first cell, where the two top-teams met (framed red as illustrated below). The detailed result presentation is shown under the grid. You might have to scroll down in your browser to view it. You can click the card icon at left for even more details and as always make corrections with the icon at the right.
Multi-pairs Presentation for a Teams tournament:
We have completely re-written the multi-team presentation, using our new Team structure. This means a much more flexible structure. Here is an example of the new layout.
Other comments to our new Teams tournament feature:
Please notice - we arrange the players to ensure “Thomas – Barbara” will not appear as “Barbara - Thomas” as well. The first player to play North – respectively East - in a team tournament will remain first mentioned throughout the grid. Only if Thomas and Barbara play on 2 different teams, which they may well do for instance as substitutes, they will be listed as 2 different entities, under each team. There will be no combined score for a pair having had substitutes.
In the example you may note that “Solveig Engernes” appears in more teams on different pairs. It’s still the same person - but she is playing as a substitute.
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